ELECTION EGGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7998, 8 December 1905, Page 3

ELECTION EGGS.

CAI« .IT IN TH;I L'-.OWl). "Xow i n , whn. • f>.-o .iml strike . iMpi , adj , t ' l ' y ' y • knot of lwal 11 i , u . ~ c . ~ t , th() joke 18, t:i . , e f(h rival . , . I>s . , . lgsttht , n . , la,l > - »" ' i i!. ' taken for a breach . tf. ; •. Two thr, wvi'. debating C>„. ; , . kl<l lhat t| £ ihildrer the c ; • e hlmd worshii e Q f , t , . () told of cho. 1. E f lW a long ys- no i , vi: tion ciremo.m*s . ct.jpl- , , , ls i p kwl( -No«-,:«)js. « u. -i Cn ,, vn on the Kiiijj s h i 'J). answer was as cnigi.iul , i: * ls I'ioxpeeted. "Mr Seddon, ir," yelled the boy at the top oi' he das;.

"I\v korri, the !.<■! i( ,i Ik all right. Big crowd ho. .Ml the sn a .the football mat- h. S. .y.- 1 he .svnd the footballers to E,i r d; I'. w'u all the time, krpri. S'Jren sry 'Vote for Smith.' S i ith W'n easee." The expression of a Mao -i en Wednesday. On the bill of test rt < iu cf thu polling 'booths in thic cleclccate. we are told, appe-irs a eherge for two chairs, dairaged by th_- unusual weight «ithcr cf a deputy returning officer or of the solidity of the votu for continuance. Tnt chair-breaking was purely accidental aud very jaue-h. able,

"You can see row who's the liest man, Massey <■• Swido.i, can't you?" asked an excited elector on Wednesday. "See whose iwlvir; the people /oUowed. Seddon told the people to vote for Smitn. I dassey told thon> that Okey was the man to support. •Svddon scoied ! Bally for Seddon !" "That's a jolly good job, anyhow," said a bystander when the result of the 1 aranak, election was announced. "Course it is, silly," came from his neigblioer, "little E.M. Is tho IxJot of the lot, eh ?" "That's so, but 1 wasn't thinking so much of him. I was just feeling glad that Tisch didn't gvt ir. I' voted for him, but I don't |reckon we ca 1 spire him ofl the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board."

"Politics ain't so very different to gorse racin'," I seys. "Cos why'! Well, leok heiv. S'|)osin there was an orse race, with Smith ami these

o:h r chaps in. And just s'pose nil the olher hut one were'just as tood performers to look at, nearly :h- >a:t:e pc.ligr e, and marly sauio colours, joa could easily make a mistake and hack one o' t V sim'lar chaps. Hut if you'd seen Smith run ("ore, and know.d 'im, then you'd beck 'im 'ands down, /'cause you know be coukl win. Well, that's just 'ow it was. you see. If th<m theru orsts was jist the sauio colour," — and then our reporter passed on, having heard quite sufficient horsesense' for o.te right from one of tho "free and ir»tollig«-t."-A "free ami independ.-nl" elector, who siniii .1 to have go. ti d i f tho questions rt,;| queri.-s (in, -tal io the reroi'.i j of his vo . 1.-t all patience at • e\ii. ..om Th.atre 11 yjl. X. • I'l. v; " h. he was ask-.1, •'« I is y. i ?" Tho f. and i. 1 er « s si i . ..at surprised. a.jd <J- in- a direclions tol.l I. in i , r ,,„ a ,i, his way hro . h .1! , .ose pollclerks and ballot Imivi,, on'y to be further assnikd. ".ill.- i : ..ourpurpose ? ' l»e nske;l. . \w ,e merely checking the n>! w;is tin- ripome. 'ine r.u -n voter said he l et! forget liis number, awl pass-tl ou. I j it to sou/* frit mis. he a- -••jTi-v w.-sl to know it '.vasii ; d< eofite no-licens" |.< ople U ml oi.-l 'low I used my vote ?" V 11. •■...»• was he tu know, aiitl how wen- thev tc know ? Kh »

It was an i.ate ruli.iv'i:3) tackled tile Het.irning. oif.eer and asked thai tile entrance to the principal polling l;o,.;h should la-cl. and. If he hed had hi - way te would have tern down the tables, not of the money-leinh-is.l.ut of the young ladies who had statinm-d livmselves thereto give the eleet«irs ih..*irnum-lK-rslK-I'ore they entered thj booth lie explained that they were hampering that lection of the great llritish putilic who were an.xioiis lo exercbe tK-ir rights and privileges as electors. IVople, he said, were complaining that thiM questioning was irksome—that it took them a quarter of an hour instead of fivo minutes to gi-t through the ordval of voting. Another elector, who seeinvd to be of a somewhat different persuasion, said these voluntary assistants »\»e doing good work, aiwl the system had the approval of the lieturning Oflicer. , "K.M. ami ironsaml for e\er|!" was one 'of Wednesday 'night's fervent cries. Mr Jennings' vott? in /litgicwowl was not as staU«U in yesUTday'a issue.